The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels c6.95

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³ *This is explained by Indo-European facts, cf. G. Dumézil, Jupiter Mars Quirinus, Paris, 1941, pp. 124 & ff., where the parallel legends of the Śatapathabrāhmaṇa & the Mahābhārata are given together. The notion of the impurity of doctors has remained a classic thing, cf. Manu, III, 180, IV, 212, although the prohibition ordained by the Taitt, S. to the Brahmin against his practising medicine, has not had the force of Law. The Bhāgavatapurāṇa, IX, III, 26, reminds the reader that the Aśvins had been at first excluded from the offering of soma because they were called “doctors”.*